Also known as
distributed computer, distributed systems is a collection of computers that act, work, and appear as
one large computer. There are several distributed computing projects
on the Internet that help work on complex problems by sharing the
processing power of millions of different peoples computers. To
participate and help these programs often you only need to download a
small program that is ran whenever your computer is not being used.
Below is a listing of some of these types of programs.
- Folding@Home -
Assist in understanding protein folding, misfolding, and related
diseases. Computer Hope has a Folding@Home team, which is ID#
67290. See our Folding@Home stats
here.
- GIMPS - Project to help
locate Mersenne primes.
- SETI@home - Assist in the
search for other life in the universe.
Also see: Network definitions
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